St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-19

from Paradise, and the sacrifice of greal
emancipator. Moses account Of the crea-
ton, corroborated by the hammer of geolo-
gists; the oldest profane writer's like
Hironlus. Helanicus and Berosus, confirm
ing the Bible account of ancient longe |ity;
Tacitus and Pliny confrrs.ng the Bible &C
counts of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah;
Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same
story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told;
Macrobius telling of the massacre OF chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketchlnS
the darkness at the cruciixlon.
II il demonstrated to all honest men that
II is not so certain that William Cullen
BRYANT wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow
wrote Hiawatha as that God by the hand
of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible Ala
the wise men in science and law and med
fcine and literature and merchandise are
gradually coming to believe IN Chrlstlanltys
and sooa there will be no people who DIS
believe in it, except those conspicuous
for lack of brain or men with two families,
who do not like the Bible because II re-
Dukes their sWinish propenslues.
The time is Fastening when there VIII be
no infdels left except ibertines and har-
lots and uurderers. Millions Of Christians
where once there were thousands, and
thousands where once there were hun
dreds. What a bright evening this, the
evening of the nineteenth century! and
the twentieth century, which will dawn IN
thirteen years from now, will, IN my opln-
ion, bring universal victory for ChrlSt ana
the church, that now is marching on with
step double quick or, if you prefer the
figure of the text, is being swept on IN the
mighty gales of blessing, imposing ana
grand and majestic and swift, like pillars
Of smoke.
Oh, come into the church through Christ,
the door, the door more glorious than that
of the Temple of Hercules, which had two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald! Come in to-day! Come IN and
be one of the eternal victors! The world
YOU leave behind is poor world, and II
will burn and pass off like pillars OF smoke.
Whether the final conflagration will starr
in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, Whlch,
in some places, have for many years been
burning and eating into the heart OF the
mountains; or whether it shall begin near
the California geysers, or whether from
out Of the furnaces of Cotopaxi and Vesu-
| vius and Stromboli, it shall burst fortn
upon the astonished nations
make no prophecy, but all biologists tell
| US that we stand on the lid of world the
| fame, and some day God will let the rcd
monsters cut of their imprisonment of cent
uries, and New York on fire in 1885, and
| Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago on
! fire in 1871, and Boston on fire in 1872 were
| only like one spark from a blacksmith 8
| forge as compared with that last universal
blaze, which will be seen in other worlds.
But gradually the flames will lessen and
| the world will become great living coal,
end that will take an ashen hue, and then
our ruined planet will begin to smoke,
! and the mountains will smoke,
and the valleys will smoke, and
the islands will smoke and the
seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke,
and the five continents will be five pillars
of smoke. But the black vapors will begin
to lessen in height and density, and then
| will become hardly visible to those who
look upon it from the sky galleries, and
after awhile from just one point there will
curl up a thin solitary vapor, and then even
that will vanish, and there will be nothing
left exc pit the charred ruins OF burned
out world, the corpse of dead star, the
ashes of an extinguished planet, fallen
pillar of smoke.
But that will not interfere with your in
yestments if you have taken Christ as your
Saviour Secure Heaven as your eternal
home, and you can look down on dis
mantled, disrupted and demolished earth
without any perturbation.
"When wrapped in fire the realms OF ethel
And Heavens last thunder shake the earth
below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt DER the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile
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